Production of lubricating oils



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2,165,313 v 0F LUBRIOA'I'ING olLs" Germany Application April 23'. .In Germany April 4 Claims. (01. 19310) Thepresent invention relates to the production v of lubricating oils.

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ers are also the gaseous all amounts so that they t analytical These small 'I'he purification of the to acgreat extent'by means of known physical or silica gel or liquefaction are advantageously carried out NT OFFICE ar, fell 193s, Serial 24, 19:7

amounts oi impurities are,

influence suite considerably the course 01' the reaction so that either the quality oi the polymer-i zation products is greatly impaired tion is, almost entirely stopped. 7

Other gaseous impurities, such as hydrogen, nitrogen or methane on the other hand, have no injurious influence provided they are not present in too large an amount.

gases can be effected -or the reacmethods such as adsorption with activexarbontional distillation in a Linde plant. These physical methods are, however, insuflicient' for the removal of the last traces of obnoxious impurigases 'with organic bases or solutions of the sameor also with'solutions oi salts of strong bases with weak acids, as alanine. These chemical purification processes under increased pressure, as for example between about and about 50 atmospheres. The temperature to be used in the purification. depends on the nature removed.

however. sllmcient' to for example the sodium salt of:

and subsequent fracof the puriiying agent and the impurities to be I tioned substances.

2.5 per cent oi residue incapable of sublimation,

. compounds, such as by the action or iorm of may cause the liquid hydrocarbons.

Finally it has been found that the nature of the aluminum chloride is of great importance ior oi the polymerization. Commercial substantial amounts incapable of sublimation. large amounts of impurities is due that in'the sublimation of aluminum chloride as ordinarily carried out a considerable amount of are ordinarily considered to be with the aluminum chloride vapours and to the further fact that aluminum atmospheric moisture. According to the present invention the aluminum chloride should contain less than 5 per cent and advantageously less than such as aluminum oxide, hydroxide, ride. A content of iron but a content or oxychlochloride is not injurious, ofiron oxide or similar non-volatile substances is injurious. In order, during the introduction of the aluminum chloride into the autoclave, to avoid the formation of non-volatile aluminum oxide and the like, the moisture in the air, it is preferable to use the aluminum chloride in the its liquid addition compounds with olelines which. can be prepared, as is already known, from liquid or gaseous oleflnes while excluding atmospheric moisture.

All paraflln V ample petroleum ether or the paramn hydrocarbon mixtures which are obtained by genation of the products formed p waxesiats and fatty oils as inert solvents mixtures, as for exby cracking are suitable um chloride or its addition compounds with oleflnes. Fused commercial hard and soft paramn waxes are also suitable as solvents although their recovery from the resulting polymerization product'is somewhat more troublesome than that of the aforesaid The oils runnings in a previous polymerization are also very suitable as solvents. advantage that no foreign hydrocarbons at all are present during the polymerization. The whole crude polymerization product may, however. also be used as a solvent.

The polymerization may be carried out at any suitabletemperature. when working at ordinary room temperature or at even lower temperatures, the'reaction usually proceeds slowly. It is, therefore, preferable to employ higher temperatures, by heating the reaction vessel to between 10 and C. or more. At this temperature a rapid exothermic reaction sets in, which temperature in the reaction vessel to rise temporarily as high as 250 C.-

The following chloride is highly sensitive against the hydro- I for dissolvlngthe gaseous olefines and for suspending the alumin obtained as first Their use offers theirom 230. to

example erves to illustrate how I the said invention may but the invention ample. The are by weight.

Example 30 parts of aluminum chloride containing 1.2

be carried out in practice, is not restricted to this exper cent oi residue incapable of sublimation are suspended in 300 solvent, for example petroleum ether. propylene is then led in at 60 C., while stirring until after 6 hours an increase in weight of 308 parts is ascertained. The reaction product is washed with water and freed of low boiling oils by distillation. The lubricating oil obtained in an amount of 250 parts boils above C. under a pressure of 0.5 millimeter (mercury gauge); it has the following characteristics:

Viscosity at as" c Engler 13s Viscosity at 99 C "do"..- 4.64 Viscosity index 55 Viscosity at 38 C Engler 131 Viscosity at 99 C do.. 4.24 Viscosity index 30 Alpha-butylene shows a similar behavior.

What we claim is:

1. The process of producing a high quality lubricating oil which comprises contacting with a polymerizing agent, selected from the group consisting of anhydrous aluminum chloride containing less than 5% of residue incapable oi'sublimatlon and the double compounds of such aluminum chloride with olefins, at,a polymerizand in the presence of an inert solvent ajgas essentially comprising an olefinand and sulfur and the compounds the reacting materials being precluded from contact with free iron.

1, in which the reacting materials are confined in a reaction space consisting of a material selected from the group consisting of nickel, chromium and alloy steels containing at least one of these elements.

claimed in claim 1 in which the are confined in a reaction space consisting of amaterial selected from the alloy steels containing at least one of and the aluminum chloride contains less than 2.5% of residue incapable of sublimation.

e. In the process claimed in claim 1, working with an aluminum chloride which contains less than 2.5 per cent 0! residue incapable of sublimation.

G HOFMANN.

WOLFGANG HAAG. HERMAN ZORN.

parts of a purely paraflinic- Purified If the same treatment he applied to propylene 

